Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski